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Dragon Ball Superドラゴンボール超Doragon Bōru Sūpā | |
| Genre | Shōnen, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Science Fiction, Bangsian Fantasy
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Manga Series: Dragon Ball Super | |
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June 20, 2015 – |
| No. of volumes |
23 |
Dragon Ball Super (ドラゴンボール超 Doragon Bōru Sūpā) is a Japanese manga and sequel to the Dragon Ball manga, written by Toyotarou and overseen by Akira Toriyama. The manga began publication in June 2015, serialized in the monthly magazine V-Jump. The manga is also being released in English by Viz Media, which started in May 2017.
The manga was being published simultaneously with the production of the Dragon Ball Super anime but went ahead of it following the Universe Survival Saga.
A full color version of the manga is being released.[1]
Overview[]
Summary[]
The Dragon Ball Super manga picks up the story of Goku and his adventures following the defeat of Majin Buu, but prior to the final chapters involving the 28th World Martial Arts Tournament. While an adaptation of Toriyama's outline, it has many storyline differences when compared to the two most-recent Dragon Ball Z movies and the Dragon Ball Super anime.
Production[]
Akira Toriyama writes plot outlines which Toyotarō uses as a basis for the stories and Toriyama personally helps put the manga together. Toyotarō creates the dialogue and illustrations, expanding, adding, and changing elements from Toriyama's plan as he deems appropriate. Akira Toriyama believes Toyotarō's freedom to change the story makes the final product better.[2] Akira Toriyama also checks through all of Toyotarō's storyboards for the manga,[2][3] and edits things to make sure everything is correct.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] To accomplish this, Toyotarō has his draft sent to Toriyama, who goes over it and then sends back parts that he drew himself with corrections to Toyotarō in order to get the final product perfect.[11] Toyotarō also makes sure that his manga follows Toriyama's continuity.[12]
Akira Toriyama has a very positive view of Toyotarō's manga, noting that Toyotarō is always accurate when drawing the manga, unlike with the anime where he always has to ask for things to be fixed, and is grateful that Toyotarō is drawing the continuation of his story.[3] He also believes that if the animators for the anime use Toyotarō's manga as a reference it will keep them on track.[2]
As the series has progressed Toyotarō has been given more control over the state of Dragon Ball Super, making some additions to the plot overview which have been implemented into both the manga and the anime, such as the appearance of Vegito in the "Future" Trunks Saga.[13]
By the time of the Galactic Patrol Prisoner Saga, Victory Uchida was working with Toriyama and Toyotarou on the story. Toyotarou's storyboards had progressed to be more detailed due to Toriyama checking them more than before, with the two narrowing down story ideas, Toriyama and Toyotarou have good compatibility as writers, with their ideas never clashing and the two usually agreeing on ideas during meetings, though Toriyama has the majority of input.[14] Uchida is also present at the story meetings.[14] At this point draft pages were also being released, with chapter 65's drafts specifically being left on a cliffhanger as the arc was approaching it's climax.[14]
Unlike the anime, the manga does not include an adaptation of Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’, likely in part due to it already having been partially adapted into manga form (though the events of the movie are still mentioned in the Super manga). In the Tournament of Power Saga's flashback to the events of Frieza's revenge a panel from the Resurrection ‘F’ manga was shown.
History of Dragon Ball exhibit at the Tokyo Skytree
The Dragon Ball Super manga's volumes are also given their own advertisements, with these ads highlighting them as the sequel to Toriyama's original manga.[15][16] A wall of Dragon Ball Super information displayed at Dragon Ball Tour 2018 section of the 2018 Comic-Con in English and at Tokyo Skytree in Japanese noted that the Dragon Ball Super manga is the canon sequel (正統続編) to the original Dragon Ball manga.[17][18][19]
As the Dragon Ball Super manga skips over the Golden Frieza Saga and Broly Saga, V-Jump suggests to readers to include the Film Animation Comics of Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ and Dragon Ball Super: Broly when doing a full run-through.[20]
Story Arcs[]
- God of Destruction Beerus Saga (chapter 1 — chapter 4)
- Universe 6 Saga (chapter 5 — chapter 13)
- "Future" Trunks Saga (chapter 14 — chapter 26)
- Tournament of Power Saga (chapter 27 — chapter 42)
- Galactic Patrol Prisoner Saga (chapter 42 — chapter 67)
- Granolah the Survivor Saga (chapter 67 — chapter 87)
- High School Saga (chapter 88 — chapter 90)
- Super Hero Saga (chapter 91 — chapter 103)
Volumes[]
Shueisha released the first volume of Dragon Ball Super in Japan on April 4, 2016, and to date twenty-three volumes have been released. Beginning on April 3, 2020, the first three volumes of a new digital full colored version of the manga was released by Shueisha. To date, twenty-one volumes of the digital full colored version have been released.[1]
The limited-edition version of Volume 5 has Future Trunks cover up Future Zeno on the spine art, with Zeno noticing this above them.[21]
English Distribution[]
Viz Media started publishing chapters in English on their official website on June 24, 2016, adding new chapters every two weeks until they caught up, starting with Chapter 22. Since then, Viz publishes the latest chapters of the manga on the 20th or 21st of each month to coincide with the release in Japan, and began releasing the collected volumes in English starting in May 2017. For some reason, the English release of the manga uses a slightly different logo than the original, the latter of which is seen in all other official media, including the anime's English dub.
Staff[]
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| Author(s) | Akira Toriyama Marlene First (editor) |
| Illustrator(s) | Toyotarou Shawn Carrico (1–9), Jay Zhang (10–present) (designer) James Gaubatz (touch-up art (4–8); lettering (7–10)) Paolo Gattone and Chiara Antonell (touch-up art (1–3) and lettering (1–6)) Brandon Bovia (touch-up art and additional lettering (9–10); lettering (11–present)) |
| Translator(s) | Toshikazu Aikawa (1–6), Christine Dashiell (5–6) and Caleb Cook (5–present) |
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Gallery[]
 Dragon Ball Super Volume 1 Japanese Front Cover Volume 1 Front Cover  Volume 1 Back Cover  Battle of Gods Special Front Cover Volume 2 Front Cover  Volume 2 Back Cover  Volume 2 Japanese Front Cover  Volume 2 Japanese Inside Front Cover  Volume 2 Japanese Inside Back Cover  Volume 3 Japanese Front Cover  Volume 3 Back Cover Volume 4 Front Cover  Volume 4 Back Cover  Volume 6 Back Cover  Volume 7 Back Cover  Volume 9 Back Cover  Volume 12 Back Cover  Volume 17 Back Cover  Volume 18 Back Cover  Volume 19 Back Cover  Volume 20 Back Cover  Dragon Ball Super Manga Illustration  Promo Art for Goku in the Manga  Volume spines .png "DB Super volume spines (Clean).png (85 KB)") Volume spines (Clean) |
See also[]
- List of Dragon Ball Super manga chapters
- Dragon Ball Super (anime)
- Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ (manga)
- List of extra images in manga pages
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dragon Ball Super manga Full Color. S-Manga.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Dragon Ball Super Volume 1 (Manga) Tori-Toyo Interview (Web Version). kanzenshuu.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dragon Ball Super Volume 1 (Manga) Tori-Toyo Interview (Book Version). kanzenshuu.
- ↑ Zamasu Toriyama edit 1. pbs.twimg.
- ↑ Zamasu Toriyama edit 2. pbs.twimg.
- ↑ Shin-Zamasu Toriyama edit 1. pbs.twimg.
- ↑ Shin-Zamasu Toriyama edit 2. pbs.twimg.
- ↑ Caulifla/Jiren Toriyama edit.
- ↑ Krillin Toriyama edit.
- ↑ 2nd Jiren Toriyama edit.
- ↑ Toyo-Tori work. pbs.twimg.
- ↑ Toyo interview Naopoli comicon 2017 (Italian). animeclick (April 30, 2017).
- ↑ Dragon Ball Super volume 4 interview: Dragon Ball Super (1) (2) (3)
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Cipher's translation of Victory Uchida's interview. twitter. Retrieved on October 14, 2020.
- ↑ Dragon Ball Super - Manga Vol. 3 Future Trunks Arc. youtube (May 31, 2017).
- ↑ Trailer 2 manga Dragon Ball Super. youtube (May 31, 2017).
- ↑ Manga canon SDCC 2018.
- ↑ Dragon Ball manga timeline
- ↑ Herms' tweet on the Japanese version. twitter (November 1, 2018).
- ↑ DBS manga anime comics. twimg.
- ↑ Tweet by Toyotaro (Japanese). Twitter. Retrieved on March 3, 2018.
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| Volume 1 | 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • Special Comic • Special Comic 2 |
| Volume 2 | 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • Extra Edition 1 |
| Volume 3 | 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 |
| Volume 4 | 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 |
| Volume 5 | 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 • Extra Edition 2 |
| Volume 6 | 29 • 30 • 31 • 32 |
| Volume 7 | 33 • 34 • 35 • 36 |
| Volume 8 | 37 • 38 • 39 • 40 • Extra Edition 3 |
| Volume 9 | 41 • 42 • 43 • 44 |
| Volume 10 | 45 • 46 • 47 • 48 • Special Edition 3 |
| Volume 11 | 49 • 50 • 51 • 52 • Extra Edition 4 |
| Volume 12 | 53 • 54 • 55 • 56 • Special Edition 4 |
| Volume 13 | 57 • 58 • 59 • 60 |
| Volume 14 | 61 • 62 • 63 • 64 |
| Volume 15 | 65 • 66 • 67 • 68 |
| Volume 16 | 69 • 70 • 71 • 72 |
| Volume 17 | 73 • 74 • 75 • 76 |
| Volume 18 | 77 • 78 • 79 • 80 |
| Volume 19 | 81 • 82 • 83 • 84 |
| Volume 20 | 85 • 86 • 87 • 88 |
| Volume 21 | 89 • 90 • 91 • 92 |
| Volume 22 | 93 • 94 • 95 • 96 |
| Volume 23 | 97 • 98 • 99 • 100 |
| Chapters not yet in Volume format | 101 • 102 • 103 |